The bidding process for contractors seeking to furnish the County with an elaborately outfitted truck to accommodate the sheriff’s bomb-defusing operations, first reported here last month, has been called off. “In the best interests of the County of San Diego, the Sheriff’s Department has decided to cancel the Bomb-Arson Command Vehicle,” says a notice posted on the County bid site February 7. According to specifications, the truck was to include an array of fancy high-tech gear, including a bevy of robots, video cameras, flat screen TVs, a digital video recorder, refrigerator, and an atomic clock…GOP congressman Duncan Hunter has a heavy-duty lunchtime fund-raising schedule coming up. According to the Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time website, since the beginning of the year Hunter has already held three fund-raisers at the Capitol Hill Club, each with a $1000 minimum for political action committees ($2000 to be “co-host”), with five more events scheduled through March 16. A February 17 lunch for the ex-Marine and defense-contractor champion is to be held at We, the Pizza, a Pennsylvania Avenue eatery whose website features a variation on a famous quote from the late acid-rock king Jimi Hendrix (“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know (pizza).”)
The bidding process for contractors seeking to furnish the County with an elaborately outfitted truck to accommodate the sheriff’s bomb-defusing operations, first reported here last month, has been called off. “In the best interests of the County of San Diego, the Sheriff’s Department has decided to cancel the Bomb-Arson Command Vehicle,” says a notice posted on the County bid site February 7. According to specifications, the truck was to include an array of fancy high-tech gear, including a bevy of robots, video cameras, flat screen TVs, a digital video recorder, refrigerator, and an atomic clock…GOP congressman Duncan Hunter has a heavy-duty lunchtime fund-raising schedule coming up. According to the Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time website, since the beginning of the year Hunter has already held three fund-raisers at the Capitol Hill Club, each with a $1000 minimum for political action committees ($2000 to be “co-host”), with five more events scheduled through March 16. A February 17 lunch for the ex-Marine and defense-contractor champion is to be held at We, the Pizza, a Pennsylvania Avenue eatery whose website features a variation on a famous quote from the late acid-rock king Jimi Hendrix (“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know (pizza).”)
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